Ada Kalinda

Ada Kalinda OS

Brief history and initial objectives

This project dates back from the early 1990ies. A few years earlier computer science had seen two marked evolutions : the Macintosh and the Ada language. Both were, each in its own way, new worlds. Strangely, those two worlds were quickly disappearing in their initial form : the purity of black and white Macintosh was rapidly superseded by more powerful various machines, color screens, new os versions ; Ada 83 stayed confined to some specialized area of high reliability software and twelve years later was "augmented" with Ada 95. This brought rare useful additions and a bunch of new possibilities which were more prone to degenerate the initial idea and the occasion of an added compiler complexity.